I don't even believe in the touchy touchy ocurrences. I'm more inclined to side with South Park's stance on it all. If no one is familiar with that stance, you go find the episode and get out mah face!!!

I'm a little too young to have been part of the MJ scene, but as someone who has been studying popular music, he sure has been a HUGE part of pop music history since Motown.

I am curious as to who will now own the rights to half of the Beatles catalogue...

Also, I was thinking this may be incredibly tasteless, but I figure LTM is as decent place as any to say this.........but do you think that Michael Jackson would even decompose? For someone who is made out of that much plastic.....

But I'm with you, what a crazy life full of stresses...it's bound to kill a person by the age of 50. Sad, really. Unfortunately that's kind of what goes on with child stars most of the time...and I don't blame him for being such a recluse in recent years.

I wonder how much money his autopsy photos would net?what, you know the highest bidder is out there waiting for?em.

Anyway, to echo the rest of youse guys, it sucks that he?s dead but with all the problems in his personal life, it was bound to catch up to him. I can?t even imagine how many pills he was probably popping to deal with everything (stress/pain/superglue to keep his nose on) and having a pack of jackals firing their flash photography lasers in his face the second he stepped out the door sure as hell didn?t help.

As for his ?incidents? we?ll most likely never now the truth and maybe that?s for the best. When it comes to a celebrity in a situation like that, the best course of action is to pay the accuser money to make them go away, even if innocent, due it being blown up by the media and forever tarnishing their reputation. The fact that he willingly spent millions and millions of his money defending his innocence instead of paying out does sort of show that, perhaps, he was a victim of some money grubbing douchebags.

As for the crazy, well, he had a shitty childhood, scratch that, he didn?t have a childhood so instead he seems to have gone to extremes to make up for lost time. Creepy, yeah, but you can?t help but like a guy who made Paul McCartney foam at the mouth by keeping him from getting his hands on the entire Beatles catalog.

Back to the topic, we may have lost a talented musician but we still have the Moonwalker Arcade game and Thriller will probably be getting a remastered rerelease now.

Also, I was thinking this may be incredibly tasteless, but I figure LTM is as decent place as any to say this.........but do you think that Michael Jackson would even decompose? For someone who is made out of that much plastic.....